Preston Green is a professor of educational leadership and law at the University of Connecticut and the John and Maria Neag Professor of Urban Education at the Neag School. At the University of Connecticut, Dr. Green helped develop the UCAPP Law Program, which enables participants to obtain a law degree and school administrator certification at the same time. Dr. Green also developed the School Law Online Graduate Certificate, a 12-credit online program that helps educators, administrators and policy makers understand the legal dimension of K-12 education.

Before coming to the University of Connecticut, he was the Harry Lawrence Batschelet II Chair Professor of Educational Administration at Penn State, where he was also a professor of education and law and the program coordinator of Penn State’s educational leadership program. In addition, Dr. Green was the creator of Penn State’s joint degree program in law and education. Further, he ran the Law and Education Institute at Penn State, a professional development program that teaches, administrators, and attorneys about educational law.

At the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Green was an associate professor of education. He also served as the program coordinator of educational administration and Assistant Dean of Pre-Major Advising Services.

Dr. Green has written five books and numerous articles and book chapters pertaining to educational law. He primarily focuses on the legal and policy issues pertaining to educational access and school choice.

Recent Publications:

Green, P., & Eckes, S. (forthcoming). All Aboard!: Making charter school boards all-purpose actors under the Supreme Court’s Amtrak case. Drake Law Review.

Baker, B., Di Carlo, M., & Green, P. (2023). Understanding the first, second, and third order effects on disparities in K-12 funding and outcomes. Poverty & Race Research Action Journal, 32(2).

Eckes, S., & Green, P. (2022). The U.S. Supreme Court paves pathway to attend publicly funded religious schools: The potential for discriminatory practices. Religion and Education. DOI: 10.1080/15507394.2022.2127629. 

Eckes, S., & Green, P. (2022). Carson v. Makin: Implications for students’ civil rights in taxpayer funded religious schools. Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion.

Green, P., & Connery, C. (2022). Beware of educational blackmail: How can we apply lessons from environmental justice to urban charter school growth? South Carolina Law Review, 73, 643-74.

Green, P., Mead, J., & Eckes, E. (2021). Covenants to discriminate: How the anti-LGBT policies of participating voucher schools might violate the state action doctrine. University of New Hampshire Law Review, 19, 163-95.

Green, P., Baker, B., & Oluwole, J. (2021). School finance, race, and reparations. Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, 27, 484-558.

Baker, B., Srikanth, A., Green, P., & Cotto, R. (2020). School funding disparities and the plight of Latinx children. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 28, 135.

Green, P., & Connery, C. (2019). Charter schools, academy schools, and related-party transactions: Same scams, different countries. Arkansas Law Review, 72, 409-44.

Connery, C., Green, P., & Kaufman, J. (2019). The underrepresentation of CLD students in gifted and talented programs. Implications for law and practice. University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, and Class, 81-101.